Thursday, June 9, 2011

Desktop Wallpaper For Rockman Day

June 9th is here, and Capcom is commemorating "Rockman Day" with the release of a special desktop wallpaper. Available in three sizes, the illustration features every Rockman from each series striking a pose amidst a single, powerful message: They Will Always Be By Your Side.

You can download the wallpaper directly at the Japanese Devroom here. No doubt Greg will get this up on the English Devroom soon, but why wait? It can be yours now!

As discussed in an earlier post, Rockman Day is a bit of a new "holiday" celebrated by Japanese fans, a play on the Japanese words for June 9th; "6" (roku) and "9" (ku) are pronounced "rokku" when combined. Rokku= Rock, i.e Rockman. For those interested, you can read up on the day's complete history right here.

This year, 2011, marks the first time Capcom has recognized the holiday officially. There's no tradition or ritual set in place Rockman Day; it's all for fun. Simply celebrate by indulging in Rockman-related activities -- games, comics, whatever! It's our day.

I'd love if there were variations of the wallpaper, one for each of the Rockmen. They could use the art that's already on the wallpaper, just bring each one to the forefront in color, like how classic Rockman is in this one.

Anyway, still very nice. We should be grateful that nowdays developers like Capcom care enough about the fanbase to share stuff like this.

@Anon3: I have no idea if it's just you or not, but I've always loved Shooting Star Mega Man's design. I honestly have always thought he had one of the coolest designs in the entire franchise, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that I'm in the minority.

Mega Man 69? Is it a sequel from Mega Man 64? XD Anyway, that's a great wallpaper! :)

Capcom should release a super Mega Man crossover game, either traditional like Mega Man Universe or a fighting game like Power Fighters, MvC2 and Disidia. Playable characters include all of the ones in the wallpaper + Barrett, Proto Men, Basses, Rogue, Bonnes, ..., and enemies like Wily, Vile, Sigma, Lumine, Elpizo, Omega, Weil, Prometheus, Pandora, Serpent, Albert, Juno, Sera, WWW, Dealers, ... There are so many characters that even if it is for recent consoles like Wii U, I don't know if all would fit in a single game!